All Hopped Up and Ready to Go: Music from the Streets of New York 1927-77

This book explores New York’s music scene from Cubop to hip-hop. Author Tony Fletcher provides an insightful history of New York’s seminal music scenes and their cultural impact. He vividly portrays mid-twentieth-century New York, where art, theater, literature, and politics converged to create unique music.

Fletcher highlights colorful characters like Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Bob Dylan, and the Ramones, tracing bebop, Latin music, the folk revival, glitter music, disco, punk, and hip-hop from Harlem, the East and West Village, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens. Beyond music history, Fletcher explains what made these distinctive New York sounds so popular nationwide.

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